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> modern languages good ideas. Lisp introduced 'cond' when? Also, pattern matching in it's slightly more advanced form is as old as ML. It's good to see langu
by sparkie 9y ago
> modern languages good ideas.
Lisp introduced 'cond' when? Also, pattern matching in it's slightly more advanced form is as old as ML.
It's good to see languages finally admitting that expressions > statements. Still waiting for them to implement proper tail recursion though so I can replace statement based loops with expression based ones.
- aidenn0 9y agoML and Lisp are both more modern than Java. Java was archaic, at least partially as an attempt to win over C++ users.